Legal Opinion
Townsend-Taylor v. Ameritech Services, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 29, 2008No. 07-2166PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs, a married couple, sued their former employer, Ameritech, for violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq. Both Taylors had a record of absenteeism, and as a result of the denial of their retroactive applications for family leave lost them jobs. The district court granted summary judgment for Ameritech.
Ameritech has delegated the processing of its employees’ FMLA claims to an entity called the FMLA Processing Unit (FPU for short), which is located in Texas, although the plaintiffs worked for Ameritech in Wisconsin.…
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